Dashboard



(No Model.) I

F. R. TUBBESING.

DASHBOARD.

No. 490,692. Patented Jan. 31, 1893.

UNITED STATES P TENT -OFFI'CE.

FRANK R. TUBBESING, OF QUINCY, ILLINOIS.

DASHBOARD.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 490,692, dated January31, 1893.

Application filed November 4, 1891. $erial No. 410,892. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, FRANK R. TUBBESING, a citizen of theUnited States,and a resident of Quincy, in the county of Adams and State of Illinois,have invented certain newand useful Improvements in Dashboards andGuards; and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exactdescription of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in theart to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being hadto the accompanying drawings, and to letters of reference markedthereon, which form a part of this specification.

Figure l of the drawings is a side View showing the application ofinvention to old vehicles. Fig. 2 is a detail View and Fig. 3 is a sideelevation.

This invention has relation to certain improvements in dashboards forcarriages and other vehicles, and it consists in the novel constructionand combination of parts as hereinafter specified.

In the accompanying drawings, the letter A designates a vehicle havingmy improved dashboard and guard B applied thereto. The upper portion Bof the dash is shown as carried outwardly and upwardly over the rearportion of the horse or other animal attached to the vehicle, andprovided at its upper for-- ward portion with the rein support- 19standing at right angles thereto. The board is preferably made in twoparts, the upper section 13 being vertically adjustable with relation tothe lower section in order that it may be regulated for differentanimals.

serves to hide from the sight of the persons in the vehicle the rearportions of the animal, also screening them from any unpleasant odorarising from the animal. The lines are'also elevated thereby into aposition where it will be impossible for the animal to th row its tailover them.

It will be obvious that if preferred. the dash may be made in a singlepiece, having the curved upper portion, and non-adj ustable.

Having thus described the invention, what I claim as new and desire tosecure by Letters Patent is:-

In a vehicle, the combination with an ordinary dashboard, of the hereindescribed supplementary board, forming a guard or screen, saidsupplementary board being of curved segmental form, resting on the upperedge of the ordinary board, and projecting upwardly and forwardlythereof, and rods or strips on said supplementary board held in clampsor sockets on the ordinary board, substantially as specified.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

FRANK R. TUBBESING. Witnesses:

L. E. EMMONS, L. E. EMMONS, Jr.

